California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of the sidwalk of Wilshire Boulevard's 3700 block, looking toward Wester Avenue, [s.d.]

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View of the sidwalk of Wilshire Boulevard's 3700 block, looking toward Wester Avenue, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of the sidwalk of Wilshire Boulevard's 3700 block, looking toward Wester Avenue, [s.d.]. A line of shops can be seen set along the block at right, a lone man walking down the sidewalk away from the viewer. To the left, parked automobiles can be seen.; Legible signs from left to right read: "Padre Sec[...]", and "Music Center".Previous version of this record reads "print is 'flat' and out-of-focus".

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Title View of the sidwalk of Wilshire Boulevard's 3700 block, looking toward Wester Avenue, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3) (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3700 block Wilshire Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m450

Identifier 44040 (accession number), CHS-44040 (call number), CHS-44040 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5632 (legacy record id), chs-m450 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-447 (legacy record id), 85-3-13 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5632

Unique identifier UC119403

Legacy Identifier CHS-44040.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.5 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
57.2 cm × 34.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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